By Lana Sterling Barbara Hepworth transformed British sculpture by piercing solid forms and letting Cornish light flood through them. Settling in St Ives in 1939,…
While the Fringe fills the Royal Mile with flyers, the Edinburgh International Festival runs alongside it from 7 to 30 August doing something almost opposite.…
By Sara Bright The National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun and opened in 1976 on London’s South Bank, embodies postwar Britain’s commitment to public culture…
Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 film Don’t Look Now adapts a short story by Daphne du Maurier into something far more fractured and emotionally destabilising than its…
The Internet Archive lent scanned books like a library and lost. What the Hachette ruling settled, what it left open, and why the fight moved…
A New York court ordered Anna's Archive to pay $19.5m and told registries worldwide to disable its domains. The site kept indexing. Why book piracy…
By Alexander Stone Harry Beck’s 1931 London Underground diagram revolutionized information design by prioritizing clarity over geographical accuracy. His radical shift to a circuit-board aesthetic,…
By Tessa Nolan Vivienne Westwood, alongside Malcolm McLaren, ignited punk fashion from their King’s Road shop, SEX, in the 1970s. She transformed everyday items like…
Stand the two men side by side in the photographs and the joke tells itself. Same neat beard, same hooded eyes, same wary set of…
From 7 to 31 August the Edinburgh Festival Fringe takes over the city again, and the numbers alone explain why it exhausts and thrills in…